Armed Self-Defense

Armed Self-Defense

Black Power

This button depicts a red five-pointed star symbolizing Communism and a black silhouette of a gun within a black outline of a gun sight. This image represents the discussion of armed self-defense among some urban Black Nationalist leaders and organizations during the late-1960s and early-1970s. The iconography on this button draws strongly from other third world liberation struggles of the time period.

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Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ca. late-1960s or early-1970s

Button

Physical Object